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Robots are becoming uncaged, mobile, collaborative and increasingly intelligent and dexterous, moving beyond their traditional strongholds to bring automation to previously inaccessible tasks. In this report, we provide a global, comprehensive, and detailed assessment of the robotics and drones technologies and markets.

This report covers the materials used in 3D printing including polymers, metals and ceramics, and their main applications. Analysis showing the state of the market, market growth drivers and restraints, and forecast printer and materials revenue is provided. The market for 3D printing materials is estimated to be worth $16 billion by the year 2028.

Thermoelectric generators are devices which convert temperature differences into electrical energy. The principle phenomenon that underpins thermoelectric energy generation is known as the Seebeck effect: the conversion of a temperature differential into electricity at the junction of two materials.

Traction motors are becoming more complex and proliferating as profitable key enabling technology leading to $480 billion demand. This unique report gives clear roadmaps, forecasts and analysis as we progress from "the battery is the vehicle" to "the power electronics and drives are the vehicle". Full coverage on-road, off-road, water, air.

This report provides the most comprehensive and authoritative view of the 2370 tpa conductive inks and paste market, giving detailed ten-year market forecasts segmented by application and material type. The market forecasts are given in tonnage and value at the ink level.

The pressing need for solutions that provide the same functional capacity but at a lighter weight is apparent across numerous industries. Lightweight metals provide the most advanced solution to this challenge.
IDTechEx have analysed the complete supply chain for aluminium, magnesium, metal matrix composites (MMC), and metal foams. Each one stands at different levels of market maturity, but all possess underlying advancements in technological innovations and contain a wealth of opportunities.

This report is focused on agricultural robots and drones. It analyses how robotic market and technology developments will change the business of agriculture, enabling ultra-precision and/or autonomous farming and helping address key global challenges.
It develops a detailed roadmap of how robotic technology will enter into different aspects of agriculture, how it will change the way farming is done and transform its value chain, how it becomes the future of agrochemicals business and how it will modify the way we design agricultural machinery.

Invented only a few years ago, triboelectric energy harvesting potentially serves most power levels and formats. Particularly it addresses the trend to smart green materials replacing components-in-a-box. An independent commercialisation roadmap is needed with device, materials opportunities and impediments prioritised. This is it. Exponential growth from making new things possible? If investors and industry get behind triboelectrics, sales including integrated devices could be rapidly passing one billion dollars in ten years.

Sea levels rise: freshwater sources dry up. Time for desalination without global warming or local poisonous gases and off grid meaning more affordable, secure, widely deployed. Off grid zero emission desalination will leap to $35 billion in 2028 including Saudi Arabia gradually spending $500bn on it. This 180 page report full of detailed new infograms analyses such desalination and its future technology roadmap, forecasting a fast growing $35 billion market in 2028. It reveals cost reduction and versatility promised by new zero emission off grid electricity technology and salt removal.

Hybrid or pure electric aircraft are cleaner and quieter, meeting new regulations, flying more of the day and night from more places and transitioning from a small business activity to a $7bn market in 10 years served by the giants. This report of over 150 detailed infographics, forecasts and analysis gives technology roadmaps, newly achievable missions, contenders' plans, sales projections and planned models based on global research in 2017.

Neural interfaces have garnered increasing attention allowing us to gain insight on the brain, improve treatments, and interact in greater depth with the world around us. EEG probes currently dominate this space, a traditional, low-cost technology; they account for more than $1B a year in revenue. The invasive probes market, however, is expected to rise in the coming decade as more innovative technologies and treatments are on the horizon.

Small manned electric vehicles - e-bikes to car-like micro EVs - are closely related and often sell in the largest numbers. The rag bag of names obscures the fact that they are closely related and add up to a very large market. Although car-like micro EVs are usually lower in cost than regular cars, together with two wheel EVs, they will reach over $41 billion in 2028 on IDTechEx analysis. Eight sub-categories are forecasted by numbers and value from 2018-2028.

IDTechEx is first to reveal huge investment potential and market opportunity for Energy Independent Electric Vehicles: they never take on fuel or plug in. They are mobile zero emission microgrids with much in common with static microgrids. Best sectors for adoption of EIEVs are forecasted. Infograms and tables clarify the emerging technologies for the necessary extreme energy harvesting and powertrain efficiency that will make it happen. Players, trials, plans, enablers are analysed from latest global information. Technology and product launch roadmaps are presented.

Roads and their surroundings will generate huge amounts of electricity powering automatic de-icing, snow removal, electric vehicle charging, interactive lighting, structural health monitoring and more. The result will be enhanced safety, speed, saving, air and water quality and a $100 billion new business. This report scopes the technologies, players and opportunities, forecasting ten years and road-mapping 20 years ahead.

Off grid electric vehicle charging stations will be a nearly $7 billion business in 2028 and there will be 100,000 energy independent electric vehicles made that year that are their own charging stations. Then all this zero emission adoption will grow really rapidly. This report covers it all from market drivers to forecasts and technology appraisal and roadmaps.

Supercapacitors, also termed as ultracapacitors and EDLC, are an alternative energy storage technology to batteries, capable of delivering short bursts of energy for high-power applications. This report from IDTechEx provides end users with all the tools to navigate the subject and understand both the underlying technology and business opportunities, thanks to IDTechEx's signature 10-year market forecasts.

Cities are moving from dirty backup electricity to using expensive rusting insecure national grid only as backup then achieving energy independence using electricity sun, wind, and water. Learn the whole picture to 2050 including 10MW solar car parks and chargers, solar windows and roads, converting road and path movement, airborne wind energy and more all closely appraised, compared, forecasted in lucid new infograms, roadmaps and forecasts by PhD level analysts.

Advanced Li-ion battery technologies are being developed all the time, but only a few make it to the mass production stage. This report analyses all main cathode (LCO, NMC, LFP, NCA) and anode (graphite, LTO, silicon, lithium metal) chemistries and benchmarks their potential against other existing or future battery technologies, such as lithium sulphur, lithium air, supercapacitors, redox flow batteries, sodium ion batteries, and zinc batteries.

The market for engineered living tissue is forecasted to exceed $4.8 billion by the year 2028. This report covers the many technologies through which they can be manufactured, including 3D bioprinting and 3D printing. Additionally, this report covers the key opportunities for engineered tissues, of which the regenerative medicine market is discussed in detail. The innovations in tissue engineering today will undoubtedly change the nature of healthcare of the future.

Developments in the automotive sector in the latter part of the 2010s have been nothing short of staggering, and so fast paced that even those that have been following the sector for many years admit not having witnessed such radical shifts in decades: A $1.7 trillion market with many facets and complex value chains, mobility is undergoing three paradigm-shifting transformations, all in the same decade: connectivity, autonomy, and electrification.

This report covers the technologies used and the main applications of 3D printing software, with an assessment of open source and commercial computer aided engineering and manufacture software used for additive manufacture. Market analysis demonstrates that the rapidly expanding 3D printing software market will be worth $966 million by 2028.

Zero emission minigrids and the like will mainly rely on solar and wind power including many new forms but other technologies are shown to be increasingly relevant. This report reveals how the market is much larger than commonly portrayed, from replacing 800GW of diesel gensets to empowering islands and developing countries and even people cutting loose from national grids and vehicles and ships becoming minigrids.

This facts-based report destroys EV myths, quantifies new vehicle and component markets emerging. Learn opportunities and profound changes in society resulting from peak car and peak internal combustion soon. Industrial and commercial versions grab share. Plug-in pure EVs lead to the end game of energy independent electric vehicles, often autonomous, by land water and air. Fuel cells and old hybrids lose to plug-in. Identify winners, losers, where, why and how.

Airborne Wind Energy AWE is the use of kites, aerostats and planes to make electricity from the more consistent, stronger winds higher than the largest wind turbine possible on land. This 300 page report compares the 20 leading players and gives investment, positioning, roadmap and analysis globally with interviews, infographics.

Digital transformation is the application of digital technology to fundamentally impact all aspects of our society. As it pertains to an enterprise, digital transformation is the reinvention of a business or organization through the use of digital technology in order to improve the way it performs and serves its clients.

Over 11 million range extenders will be made in 2028, range extenders are the additional power source that distinguishes hybrid cars from pure electric. Add to that significant money spent on the same devices in buses, military vehicles, boats and so on and a major new market emerges. This unique report is about range extenders for all these purposes - their evolving technology and market size.

Li-ion batteries have become quintessential for consumer electronics; within the next five years we will also see them increasingly deployed in electric vehicles. In this report, IDTechEx brings you on a journey around the world's gigafactories and emerging battery materials, with technology comparisons and market forecasts up to 2028. Over 140 Li-ion battery manufacturers are listed and compared, and key insights are collected from the main industry trade shows worldwide.

The general RFID market has seen substantial growth over the last few years, with successful public offerings and rapid growth in terms of the number of RFID tags sold. Vendors are now exploring allied technologies with RFID sensors at the forefront of this. This has been enabled thanks to new chipsets, at both HF(NFC) and UHF (RAIN) which are dedicated to support sensor platforms and therefore make RFID sensors simpler to make and lower cost in addition to the increasing maturity and wider scale adoption of RFID reader infrastructure. Additionally, new technologies from printed sensors and flexible batteries to bio sensing films meet unmet needs and provide differentiation.

Point-of-care biosensors have been a commercial success in the area of diabetes management (glucose testing). Medical biosensors can also be used to diagnose cardiovascular issues, infectious diseases and cancer. Biosensor technologies are moving to point-of-care, getting closer to patients and disrupting the conventional diagnostics market. In particular, DNA-based diagnostics (aka molecular diagnostics) will become a key driver for growth. Point-of-care biosensors will become a $33 billion market by 2027.

Vehicle fuel cells usually act as range extenders for fast refuelling time and range vs battery electric powertrains the alternative with zero local pollution. Learn the attitudes, achievements and forecasts of industry leaders in 2017 and access appraisal and forecasts of 45 EV types and their fuel cell potential by PhD level IDTechEx analysts. A tipping point has been reached: potential is large if remaining challenges analysed here are addressed.

Millions of devices that had batteries are now redesigned to avoid them, unlocking new business. This new 280+ page report reveals latest ways of eliminating batteries to permit mass deployment of IOT, electric vehicles with "perpetual" speed and almost unlimited life and much more. See relevance and technology for applications from sensors to the energy grid and ships.

Neuroprosthetics is a growing field that has the potential to re-engineer a patient's lost sense of sight, sound, and even touch. Projected to reach $18 billion by 2028, this report details the emerging technologies and steps that are being taken by multiple companies working to bring these innovative devices from the bench to the bedside.

This report covers the technologies used and the main applications in 3D printing of metals, with an assessment of commercially available printers and materials. Analysis showing the state of the market, market growth drivers and restraints, and forecast printer and materials revenue is provided. 3D printing of metals is estimated to become a $12 billion market by the year 2028.

This report provides key data and analysis based on extensive research including interviews with RFID adopters and solution providers in the various applicational RFID markets, giving an unprecedented level of insight into the total RFID industry and what is really happening.

Last mile delivery is expensive, slow or dangerous whether package or person. 1.7 million US truckers' shipment revenues were $726bn (2015), more than google, Amazon and Walmart combined. Turning trucks regularly crunch cyclists to death. This report appraises all options for last mile delivery of people and things, from drones to sidewalk and planned taxi/bus robots and new manually driven EVs. Electric vehicles best leverage autonomy. See forecasts and statistics.

Composite parts consist of fibres embedded in a matrix to give superior properties in comparison to their individual elements. The industry appears well-established, but beneath the surface, there are significant innovations at every step of the supply chain. This provides both improved and nascent materials and opportunities in both expanding and emerging applications. IDTechEx forecast this market to exceed $9bn by 2027 just for synthetic fibres in composite parts.

Over the next decade, bus technology will focus on pure electric and hybrid with pure electric winning and autonomous versions increasingly important. This report explains how and why in the context of some small players out-performing, the Chinese going global using huge economy of scale and electric school buses and new bus-taxis becoming significant. Bus technology changes radically: conventional powertrains, components, structures vanish. See detailed forecasts by type and region.

A range of new networking technologies enabling devices to communicate and transmit valuable data are emerging. Such networks are able to transmit small packets of data over incredibly long distances, making them perfect for IoT applications including smart cities, asset tracking and connected agriculture.
Over the next decade, more than 10 billion devices will be connected to such networks however there is much confusion around which networks operate best for particular applications and in what areas.

This report gives a detailed introduction on the status of perovskite solar cells both in the technology perspective and business aspect. Technology benchmarking and market analysis are performed to analyse the potential of perovskite solar cells in a number of applications such as utility, BIPV, smart window, outdoor furniture, etc. By 2028 the market is expected to reach over $500 million.

This research report from IDTechEx gives an in-depth review of the issues relating to high barrier films for flexible electronics, as well as forecasts for display, lighting and photovoltaic technologies, in order to understand the influence that the development of barriers will have on the mass deployment and adoption of flexible electronics and photovoltaics.

Vehicles becoming electric will create a $300 billion plus power electronics market in 2027. Researched worldwide in 2016/2017, with infographics, ten year roadmaps and projections, this report details how power electronics grows because the number of motor controllers per vehicle is increasing and steering, suspension and other previously mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic parts become power electronics. In addition, multiple forms of recuperation and energy harvesting will create electricity in vehicles.

Electrically active transparent glass creates electricity, darkens on demand, handles radio signals, emits light and displays moving color images. This report analyses how it is being used in buildings, vehicles and elsewhere, demand growing to $6.5 billion in 10 years. As the only comprehensive, up-to-date technology and market coverage of the topic, it will assist all in the value chain including building and vehicle designers, sellers, users. Emphasis is commercial.

This report covers the technologies used in 3D bioprinting and the main applications of 3D bioprinted tissue, with focus given to the future application of regenerative medicine. The benefits of 3D bioprinting technology, current drivers, trends, and challenges are discussed in this report. 3D bioprinting is estimated to become a $1.8 billion market by the year 2027.

Compiled after three years of dedicated and ongoing research by expert analysts, this report details IDTechEx' s coverage of the wearable technology ecosystem. The report looks at the industry from many different perspectives, with detailed discussion framing core primary research and market forecasting. The reports looks at the historical context for wearable technology products, looking at key yet contrasting sectors such as medical devices and commodity infotainment items like headphones or electronic watches. It then focuses on key trends today, ranging from societal megatrends (e.g. the aging population), to industry-wide innovation trends (e.g. evolving form factors and interfaces in devices), and finally down to core player-by-player strategies within industry and product verticals.

This new IDTechEx report is focused on how the market for AR and VR headsets is going to evolve in the next decade, based on the exciting research and developments efforts of recent years along with the high visibility some projects and collaborations have enjoyed. The amount of visibility this space is experiencing is exciting developers of a range of allied technologies into fast-tracking/focusing their efforts, as well as creating devices and components designed specifically to serve this emerging industry: microdisplays, optical engines and haptic feedback components are some of the main components that are seeing significant growth alongside the growth in interest in augmented and virtual reality.

"Supercapacitor Materials 2017-2027" is a drill down from the IDTechEx overview report, "Supercapacitor Technologies and Markets 2016-2026". It has 210 pages packed with detailed analysis with infograms, conference slides, roadmaps and a ten year forecast 2017-2027. The Executive Summary and Conclusions is insightful, detailed yet easily assimilated. Chapters then give introduction then cover separators, active electrodes and electrolytes. Then there is an extensive chapter on 60 profiled developers and manufacturers. 79 tables and figures overall.

This report uniquely tracks latest powertrain achievements, intentions and forecasts ten years ahead with roadmaps for twenty years ahead. Only here is the broadened future electrification from imminent 48V mild hybrids becoming a huge business to energy independent vehicles with scope to rise to over $100 billion within 20 years. The reinventing, adding and merging of components and powertrain devices is given close attention. Powertrain winners and losers are identified.

This report is the most comprehensive overview of the markets, players and technologies in the haptics space. Whilst OEMs shift between ERM motors and LRAs in the mass market, many new haptics technologies have been developed and begin to find their niches. Whilst the total market climbs beyond $2.8bn by 2027, the report finds that the emerging sector will increasingly shine through, generating $500m of new revenue annually by 2027.

The redox flow battery (RFB) technology, despite higher upfront costs, has a shorter payback time thanks to a good capacity retention even after many thousands of cycles.
RFBs retain most of their initial value thanks to the possibility to recycle their core components.
Lithium-ion batteries will suffer a setback from the emergence of utility-grade RFBs, which will ease the pressure on the lithium resources needed for electric mobility applications.

This report provides the most comprehensive and authoritative view of the topic, giving detailed ten-year market forecasts segmented by application and material type. The market forecasts are given in tonnage and value at the material level. Furthermore, this report includes compressive interview-based profiles of all the key players in the industry, providing intelligence on the investment levels, expected future revenues, and the production capacity across the industry and by supplier. In addition, this report critically reviews all existing and emerging production process.

This unique report is presented in very detailed wide format slides. Only a global up-to-date view makes sense in this fast-moving subject. Therefore the multilingual PhD level IDTechEx analysts have travelled intensively in 2016 and 2017 to report the latest research, conferences and expert opinions and to analyse how the markets and technologies will move over the coming 15 years. Original IDTechEx tables and infographics pull together the analysis.

Diabetes affects over 400 million people around the world. Advancements in sensing and communication technologies are enabling new devices to monitor glucose levels, deliver insulin and manage diabetes in ways that have never been possible before. This report covers the current and future technologies that will enable fully automated diabetes control and assist diabetic patients as part of a multi-billion dollar market.

OLED lighting is an emerging solid-state lighting technology. It potentially provides a route into the large and growing global lighting market. It however faces a critical differentiation challenge vis-à-vis incumbents such as inorganic LED lighting. IDTechEx has assessed the technology and markets for OLED technology in the lighting sector. We find that the market will be slow to take off until 2019/2020 but will reach 2.5 billion USD in 2027.

This report is based upon years of research as we have been tracking and analysing TCF industry since 2008. In this time we have witnessed first-hand the rise and fall of technologies and companies, and correctly predicted the consolidation period of the past few years.

E-textiles (electronic textiles) involve the integration of electronic components into or onto textiles. This report provides a comprehensive review of all of the main techniques being used and developed today, including over 100 example companies and interviews from more than 25 key players. The report concludes that the e-textile market will approach $5bn in product revenue by 2027.

Wireless charging for electrics and electronics at a few millimetres and vehicles at a few centimetres is practical and increasingly affordable. Charging low power devices at several meters is becoming feasible and affordable potentially giving a better route to wide deployment. This 140+ page report replete with new forecasts, roadmaps and infographics is essential reading for those involved not least because new standards, opportunities and players are coming center stage.

Stretchable electronics is an umbrella term covering a diverse range of components. This traditionally academic area is beginning to move beyond the lab into early commercial markets. This report provides you with everything you need to know, with coverage of the entire value chain from materials and components through to emerging products, concluding that the market for stretchable electronic materials and components will be over $600m by 2027.

Uses for UAVs/ drones surpass the investor graveyard of toys. Think professional photography and sensing and delivery of the internet, chemicals by individual growing plant, post, bombs. Imagine it enhanced by autonomy and energy independence of drones even as some transport 30 tonnes and others generate 100kW. The new infograms, roadmaps and forecasts in this report are for savvy investors, governments, developers seeking enduring profit and benefit to society. The market forecasts are for six categories and encompass numbers, prices and market values.

This unique report reflects the new reality that energy harvesting - creation of off-grid electricity where it is needed, using ambient energy - is now widely deployable up to 100kW and beyond. This is resulting in dramatic new capabilities such as the rapidly growing number of land, water and air vehicles that operate entirely on sunshine and electricity becoming affordable and feasible in remote parts of Africa. It will result in the electric vehicle that has longer range than the vehicles it replaces.

The development and deployment of smarter robots that can see, feel, and make decisions based on sensory feedback is expected to have massive societal impact in the next decade, as such systems will target many more market segments than current robotic systems address. In this report, we evaluate the market for sensing systems in robots, including 2D & 3D vision and force sensing, that is expected to reach over $16.1 billion in the next decade. Autonomous vehicles, industrial and collaborative robots are only some of the types of robots that will proliferate and impact all aspects of everyday life, a proliferation made possible only because of the development of the relevant enabling sensing systems highlighted in this report.

This report provides the most comprehensive view of the topic, giving detailed ten year forecasts by component type, territory and materials. The market is analyzed by territory, printed/non printed, rigid/flexible, inorganic/organic, cost of materials/process cost and more. It addresses the big picture - all OLED displays and other relevant displays plus OLED lighting, thin film photovoltaics, sensors, TFTs, batteries and enabling materials. The report builds on ten years of analysis on the topic with refined up-to-date forecast data.

This deeply researched new report covers pure electric and hybrid craft of all sizes and uses giving the many reasons why they are arriving. It has over 250 pages packed with new case studies, infograms, forecasts and roadmaps with a commercial rather than academic bias for investors, parts makers, suppliers, users and others. A business of over $20 billion is forming.

Aerogel products are a class of highly porous lightweight materials made up of an interconnected nanostructural network. Major players are finding more nascent applications and new entries are progressing out of semi-commercial prototypes and into a full market launch. The market is predicted to reach $1.04bn by 2027 and a more diverse and profitable market to be on the cusp of emerging.

Those selling components for electric vehicles and those wishing to make the vehicles themselves must seek where the majority of the money is spent and will be spent. That must lead them to industrial and commercial electric vehicles because today these represent 60% of the value of the electric vehicle market. Indeed, this sector is set to grow 4.5 times in the next decade. Industrial and commercial electric vehicles include heavy industrial vehicles, the term referring to heavy lifting, as with forklifts.

Sensors that are printed on flexible substrates represent a growing market. Although the biggest segment — blood glucose test strips — is currently shrinking, the next generation of printed sensors will enable other applications, from human machine interfaces to environmental sensing. IDTechEx predicts the market for fully printed sensors will reach $7.6 billion by 2027.

In the mobile age, touch has become the dominant user interface technology. However, as the technology saturates, force sensing is being added to literally add an additional dimension to this interface. This report covers the transition from touch to force that has begun in high end consumer electronics and will spread to other sectors in the coming years.

This report covers the current and future status, opportunities and market forecasts of 3D printing. It contains many illustrative and analytical figures and tables plus 90 company profiles from across the globe.

Researched in late 2016 with ongoing updates, this unique report on the Internet of Things IoT has over 140 data filled pages including over 150 images. It is intended to assist investors, participants and intending participants in the value chain including developers and academics, interested government officials and users seeking the truth based on new investigation. The focus is on identifying genuine capabilities and needs from a commercial point of view.

This report covers the solid-state electrolyte industry with a focus on winning chemistries, manufacturing challenges, and market applications. A full analysis of the eight inorganic solid electrolytes is given, together with a technology and manufacturing readiness analysis for 16 different companies. A study of lithium metal as a strategic resource is also presented.

A significant part of the $0.7 trillion electric vehicle market, land, water and air will be fully autonomous vehicles, some energy independent too. This unique commercially oriented report has detailed market and technical analysis with many new infograms, conference slides, roadmaps and forecasts. It is based on global research by PhD level multi-lingual analysts in 2016 with frequent updates.

Electric vehicles by land water and air are sharply reducing wasted energy by making electricity internally. They are also making their own electricity from daylight, wind, waves and more. Call it all energy harvesting including regeneration and you have the next key enabling technology for EVs. This report alone scopes its prosperous future with abundant new infograms revealing technology roadmaps, significant achievements and EV forecasts in 46 categories.

Structural electronics (SE) is one of the most important technological developments of this century. It forms a key part of the dream, formulated decades ago, of computing disappearing into the fabric of society. It also addresses, in a particularly elegant manner, the dream of Edison in 1880 that electricity should be made where it is needed. SE is often biomimetic - it usefully imitates nature in ways not previously feasible. It is a rapidly growing multi-billion dollar business.

This report concerns the needs, technology and markets for wearable electronics for animals, from pets to livestock and wild animals. We include the back-up equipment and systems and devices that are ingested to rest in a stomach of an animal. We also include devices implanted under the skin. There are currently about 300 manufacturers of such things in the world, the highest percentage in China, making very basic product at lowest price, followed by the USA then other countries we identify, the latter including the primary innovators.

At last: the whole picture. "Energy Harvesting: Off-grid Microwatt to Megawatt 2017-2027" embraces making electricity from humans, wind, sun, waves, tide, thermals and other ambient sources where it is needed and with no pollution. It even covers regenerative harvesting as with a propeller going backwards as an aircraft descends and, for land vehicles, regenerative braking of wheels and construction vehicle arms, regenerative suspension, thermoelectrics, turbine in the exhaust and more.

OLED displays will continue gaining market share against LCD technology. The next evolution is plastic displays and flexible displays. These two new categories together will make a $18bn market within the next five years. Glass-based displays will remain an important technology, especially in TV applications where scale-up and cost reduction are still big challenges. This report gives a detailed analysis of the technology and forecasts by market segment and display type.

Overheating is the most critical issue in the computer industry. It limits further miniaturisation, power, performance and reliability. Efficient heat removal a crucial issue for progress in information, communication and energy storage technologies. This 206 slide deck covers the ten types of materials available to improve heat removal in eleven key applications with a combined market predicted to rise to $3.5b by 2026.

Electrically Conductive Adhesives (also known as conductive epoxies) are used to form interconnects in a broad range of products and industries. Trends such as increasing numbers of LEDs and sensors, curved and flexible displays in more products, in-mould electronics, and thin film photovoltaics are placing more stringent requirements on ECAs and driving a $3.3 billion market by 2026.

This report gives full details on the dynamics of lithium-ion batteries which are currently used in electric buses providing useful insights to better understand latest advancements in the technology, potential future development and market activities. The report concludes that the demand for large electric bus batteries has the potential to be the largest market for lithium-ion batteries reaching a market value of $30 billion by 2026 when compared to other addressable market segments.

Thin, printed and/or flexible battery (or batteries with novel form factors) are back on the agenda thanks to the rise of Internet of Things, wearables and environmental sensors. These applications require new features and battery designs that traditional battery technologies simply cannot provide. This has opened the door to innovation and added a new dimension to the global competition between battery suppliers. IDTechEx predicts that this market will grow to become a $471m industry in 2026 from a small market base today.

This report focuses on the toolkit of technologies that enable the integration of printed and flexible components and devices within vehicles. Benefits to the automotive industry will include versatility in design and form factor, reduced size, weight and complexity of components, also translating into lower cost structures.

This report gives an assessment of the main applications of colloidal quantum dots in display, lighting, photovoltaic, sensors and life science. With 10 year market forecasts, the report includes a detailed industry analysis of quantum dots in both LCD and QLED displays.

The first 3D printed electronics solutions recently came to market and, off the back of 3D printing, are likely to receive considerable media attention over the coming year. This report identifies players in PCB prototyping and antenna manufacture as the hottest players in this space today. 3D printed electronics will be a multibillion dollar industry by 2025.

This report provides quantitative analysis and unprecedented level of insight into China's RFID industry, analyzing the market by application, region, frequency band and value chain. The report develops a ten-year segmented market forecast. It also provides detailed profiles of 28 listed companies in addition to a further summary of 110 other Chinese RFID players. By 2025 the total RFID market in China will reach US$4.3 billion.

As wearable electronics becomes skin patches, hides in apparel and so on, the material becomes the product: the old "components in a box" approach is inadequate. This report evaluates the total market for wearable electronics and how the new materials for new processes such as 2D and 3D printed and in-mold electronics take the added value. It analyses the multi-billion market for new functional materials that results up to 2025.

This unique report addresses the applications and technologies of printing, curing and key integration equipment that is enabling printed electronics. The report assesses the performance of each printing and curing technology type.

This Internet of People (IoP) report is unique in being up-to-date and very thorough in examining the big picture involved including wearable, flexible, tightly rollable and stretchable technology and replacing batteries with multi-mode energy harvesting. The maturing mobile phone, tablet, and laptop industry will reinvent itself with widely dispersed peripherals in smart patches, glasses, watches, headgear and more and they will transition to web enablement then replacing complete mobile phone functions. 55 billion IoP devices could be sold in 2025.

The WSN business is set to become a multibillion dollar activity but only if there is major progress with standards and technology. This techno-marketing report scopes over 140 manufacturers and developers and looks closely at the impediments to rollout and how to overcome them. For example, today's power sources often stand in way of the desired 20 year life so the report looks closely at how energy harvesting can help and profiles 40 relevant power source manufacturers. Ten year WSN forecasts are made based on the very latest information.

This report reveals the global demand for electronic smart packaging devices is currently at a tipping point and will grow rapidly to over $1.45 billion within 10 years. The electronic packaging (e-packaging) market will remain primarily in consumer packaged goods CPG reaching 14.5 billion units that have electronic functionality within a decade.

We identify 37 families of new and rapidly-evolving electronic and electric device, spanning nano to very large devices. Most chemical and material companies wish to de-risk their investment by finding common formulations across this new business that has a potential of over $50 billion for them. Indeed, the biggest markets for new and reinvented electrical and electronic devices may get commoditised first or collapse suddenly, leaving the materials suppliers high and dry. Read this report to avoid such a fate.